Realtek wireless card support

[Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas]

On 14/02/2017 08:21, Kevin McErlean wrote:
> Dear sir, or ma'am,
>                           I am a novice/hobbyist and have recently put
> FreeBSD 11 on an HP 2000 DX219 notebook; I have spent some time trying to
> get drivers for the RTL8188CE wireless card, without much luck. It is only
> after several attempts and forum searches that I am sending this email, as
> this was a "practical application" to learn from. Any guidance on this will
> be absolutely appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Hi,
according to the manpage, rtwn should be the correct driver (based
solely on a quick search using
root at bsdpkgbuild:~ # apropos Realtek | grep -i 8188ce
rtwn(4) - Realtek RTL8188CE PCIe IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless network device )
and a quick read of the manpage suggests adding

if_rtwn_load="YES"
legal.realtek.license_ack=1
rtwn-rtl8192cfwU_load="YES"
rtwn-rtl8192cfwU_B_load="YES"


to /boot/loader.conf
and rebooting.
check its been seen ok by running
sysctl net.wlan.devices

which should return something like
net.wlan.devices: rtwn0

from there you should be ok to follow the handbook on wireless.


Hope that helps,
Vince

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